Category Archives: Marketplace

Marketplace Offers Tools for Local Welfare Reform Coverage

Today marks “the end of welfare as we have come to know it,” when President Bill Clinton signed a bill that would dramatically transform the country’s welfare system.

Make a local connection by using the Marketplace database tool to pull charts, graphs and user-friendly information about how welfare spending has changed in your state since the passage of welfare reform. We call it: Your State on Welfare. Features include:

  • Both national and state-specific data detailing how welfare funds are spent (from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) presented as a data tool exclusively by Marketplace
  • Shareable and embeddable charts, graphs and other visuals that explore this important data
  • State pages that highlight key findings

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Marketplace Offers”Politics Inside Out” Convention Modules

Marketplace is offering special modules that look at politics from the inside out – with real people’s questions inside the conventions and take a look at political developments outside the conventions.

Who does the economy work for? What’s the real currency of government? Who are the winners and losers in today’s global economy? How are people’s lives and livelihoods affected by their access to political power? These are the questions that Americans are asking this election season, and Marketplace is positioned to tackle them for your listeners.

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Your State on Welfare: From the Marketplace® Wealth & Poverty Desk

Welfare as We (Don’t) Know It
2016 marks 20 years since the U.S. ended “welfare as we know it” by passing sweeping welfare reform. With this milestone passage of time as the lens, senior correspondent Krissy Clark and the team decided to investigate what welfare is today: because sometimes the things we fight the most about are the things we know the least about.

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Six Routes to Riches – a special co-production from BBC World Service and American Public Media’s Marketplace on how to make it in the new global economy

New 6 part series will be crowdsourcing ideas from global audiences across social media platforms 

New York, February 13, 2015 – BBC World Service and American Public Media’s Marketplace are joining forces this month for a special global co-production, Six Routes to Riches. The timely six-part series will explore how individuals from different countries and communities around the world are finding new ways to make money.   Hosted by Marketplace’s Lizzie O’Leary, correspondents from both BBC and Marketplace will visit six epicentres of the changing global economy to meet the people who have ‘made it’ – and those aspiring to make it.

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NPR Clock Project: Marketplace Morning Report FAQ

In a move signaling public media’s shared commitment to its audience, NPR and American Public Media announced an agreement today that will make APM’s Marketplace Morning Report a daily feature during NPR’s Morning Edition newsmagazine. The change will take place in the fall.

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Radio Exclusive: Kai Ryssdal interviews IMF’s Christine Lagarde

Monday, June 16th,  Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), sits down with Kai Ryssdal for a new interview. In the radio broadcast exclusive, Lagarde will  be talking to Ryssdal about a wide range of economic topics, including this morning’s release of the IMF’s annual review of the U.S. economy. Lagarde discusses her faith in the American people and the U.S. economic system, her relationship with Fed Chair Janet Yellen and the need for ongoing communication from the Fed. She also shares why the IMF is advocating raising the U.S. minimum wage and how the U.S. is continuing to recover from the financial crisis.

  • Promos for the interview may be downloaded from ContentDepot after 12:30 pm
  • The interview will air on the June 16th Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal